Sunday, September 27, 2009

—Charley Steiner, after the Dodgers took the lead in the eighth inning

If it's any consolation, today's ninth-inning loss was a team effort: Clayton Kershaw allowed two runs in four innings of work, Andre Ethier was thrown out at third and Matt Kemp was picked off first in the fourth, the Dodgers loaded the bases with one out but scored only once in the seventh, and Jonathan Broxton melted down in the ninth, aided by errors by Rafael Furcal and Ethier.

Magic number remains at one; Colorado currently leads the Cardinals 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth. Early start (9:30 a.m.) tomorrow — hang in there, Dodger fans!

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Steiner: Well, here comes McKinley to shake hands. It's the end of the convention, and I think it's safe to say the president will walk out of here alive and well and - Oh my goodness, McKinley's been shot!

A lot of thoughts on DodgerTalk about what went wrong. One guy said Broxton should have thrown at Milledge's head. Another guy said Steiner's a jinx (the only one sane caller) and then a guy complaining Broxton did not throw a slider.

Too pissed off and still too sober to listen to post-game talk so thx for the intel, MLASF.

I think Broxton's problem was that, other than throwing the ball forward (not backward), he had no concept whatsoever what to do with the ball or where it should land at the end of its flight, with respect to the start of its forward trajectory.

I couldn't understand what the hell that caller was saying. I thought he wanted Broxton to go for the head, but now that Nic clears it for me, his talk about holding an ivestigation kinda makes more sense now.

Mrs. Dusty, whom I love dearly, and her sister-in-law, both of whom you all know by now are hardcore Dodgers fans, but who still manage to have normal lives (unlike me), and both of whom play starring roles in my running commentary/masterful insight/insipid snark on this site, just walked in from seeing a movie and told me that today's loss was ENTIRELY my fault since, during the game, I donned a cap I hadn't worn in weeks ("LA Opening Series 2009," with bunting graphic), and therefore broke the karmic spell woven throughout the game, and at the same time conspired to write, perhaps, the longest run-on sentence in SoSG history, or at least the sentence that contains the most commas, I would guess.

Making the long ride home after that embarrasment. Not even getting my picture taken with Sauerkraut Saul the racing pierogi can soothe my angred soul after this debacle. I really hope this is the last of the garbage play we see this season

We had a blackout for a half an hour last Saturday and the Internet didn't work 'till late last night. I'm glad i wasn't there to witness this team effort to lose, but you know, it could be worse:we could be Pirates fans, glad to beat one of the best teams in baseball, though mediocre was a collective first name yesterday.